"Monday Night Football" is the 14th episode in the second season of the television series How I Met Your Mother.
For Ted's favorite holiday, Super Bowl Sunday, he and the gang plan to continue their tradition of watching it together with hot wings.
The funeral starts at the same time as Super Bowl XLI, so they tape it figuring they will watch it afterwards.
Ted constructs a device (the “Sensory Deprivator 5000”) so he can get the wings and not find out the score while he is in the sports bar.
While Ted is back in the bar getting the sauce, the others find out the score of the game without even watching it: Barney checks the newspaper, Robin hears the winner at the news station, and a janitor has the radio on in the kindergarten revealing the score of the game to Marshall and Lily.